Workers' Party supports fishermen struggle

The Workers’ Party has said it fully endorses the stand taken by fishermen today as they tie up their boats in protest against the cost of fuel, the size of the percentage they get from fish prices and a number of other grievances.

Workers’ Party spokesman Denis O’Connor (Cork) said that coastal communities were already being decimated by falling fish stocks, a discriminatory EU quota system and he believed that the rocketing price of fuel could be “last straw” for Irish fishermen.